Sweeper.



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SWEEPBR.

APPLICATION FIVLED JAN. 25. 1905.

Q PATENTED DEQ. 5, 1905,

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lowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofv reference marked thereon, which forma part' of this specication.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in sweepers; and the object of the invention is to produce a simple and effi.-

.V cient apparatus of this naturewhereby the proved sweeping apparatus.

rotary sweeper is mounted upon the end of a .shaft and rotated by meansof a friction-wheel which is made to contact with a driving-wheel positioned at right angles to the broad face of the sweeper, means being provided Whereby the driving-wheel and shaft carrying the same may be turned over, rendering th'eapparatus practicable for sweeping continuously to the same side, although Vgoing lirst one way and then the opposite direction.

The invention consists, further, in various details of construction and in combinations and arrangements of'parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and then specically defined in the appended claims.

My invention islillustrated in the accompanying drawings,` in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my im- Fig. 2 is a top plan view, and Fig. 3 is a detail view, in central section, of the sweeper.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a handlebar which may be hollow or solid, as may be desired, and has a cross-piece B fixed in `an eye at the outer end .of said'shaft. Mounted 4upon said handle-bar is a-sleeve D, having an enlarged end D', and E designates an angled axle-shaft, on one end ofwhichis journaled the driving-wheel F, said angled'shaft being' secured to thesleeve by a bolt H. Swiveled yin said enlarged portion D of the sleeve is the head K of the rotatable shaft K', and L designates a friction-wheel fixed vto said shaft K' and is adapted tol frictionally engage the face of the wheel F, as shown clearly in Fig;

-ASpecicat'ion-of Letters Patent.V f ,Appnmimlea,January 25,1905. sriai No.' 242.631.

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held .between the disks QC upon the shaft Kv', nuts'O being fitted upon the threaded shaft K and designed to clamp said disks friction'-l ally against the opposite faces ofthe brush.

A thumb-screw N is carried in anaperture in the angled arm of thev axle on which the wheel. F is mounted, andthe inner end of said -thumbscrew is designed to bear againstthe head of the sleeve D for the purpose of regulating the frictional contact between the wheels L and F. By turning the screw N in one direction it will be observed that the wheels will be drawn together, while in the opposite direction they will be thrown away from each other, said screw'turning in a threaded aperture in the angled arm of the axle.

By the construction shown in the drawings it will be observed that when itis desired to turn the driving-wheel and shaft so that it 75 will be positioned on the vopposite side of the handle-bar the latter is raised slightly, allowing the weight of the apparatus to rest upon the edge of the brush, and by Vmeans of the swiveled connections between the shaft K and the sleeve said handler bar may be readily turnedjso that the drivinglwheel will be pov sitioned in a plane parallel to the position shown in Fig.- 2 of the drawings.

.By the provision of the apparatus shown it A makea continuous sweeping movement in the same dlrectlon.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A sweeping-machine comprising a handle'bar, a sleeve on said bar, an angled axle secured to said sleeve, a driving-wheel journaled T00 upon said axle, a rotary brush swiveledto said bar, a friction-wheel adapted to contact with said driving-wheel for rotating the brush, and means carried by said axle and coperating with said sleeve for regulating the frictional 1205 contact between the wheels, as set forth.

l2. A sweeping apparatus comprising ahandle-bar, a sleeve on said bar, an angled axle secured to said sleeve, a driving-wheel journaled upon said axle, a swiveled shaft carried by said 1.10 handle-bar, a brush fixed'to said swiveled shaft,

a friction-wheel also xed upon said'swiveled axle and adapted toeontaet with said frictionl wheel., a thumb-screw passing through the angled end of said axle and adapted to bear against said sleeve, whereby the frictional cont`a`c`t` between the wheels may be regulated, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto alx my 2O signature inpresence of two witnesses.

RICHARD WYLIE.

Witnesses:

JAMES A. DALY, JOHN F. HATTEL. 

